GPT-4 did two group projects in my Masters within about 2 hours.

Hey guys.

Just wanted to be another voice saying: This is going to change everything. As it already has. As most of us, I started out using GPT-3 for writing poems, stupid jokes etc. But now, for the first time, I actually had the chance to solve my university projects using GPT-4. It's just absolutely incredible how efficient you can get using these tools, provided you know how to use them.

I study psychology, a subject which, although it is crucial to solving many problems of our consciousness, relies heavily on research that has already been done, especially in our Masters. So when we got the task to do a group project on the topic of sleep, a topic which I already read a lot about, I decided to try doing the whole thing A.I. assisted.

In short, we are six people. We have to make a podcast about the topic (about 20 min.) summarizing theoretical information and giving practical advice on how to incorporate this information to improve one's sleep. My task was to (together with two other people) provide theoretical research, collecting any useful information from different sources within the next few weeks. The other three people were supposed to collect any insights on how to improve sleep quality, changing their habits etc. so we could incorporate all this and make a podcast about it in about a month.

I did the work of all six people, theoretically and practically, in about one and a half hours. I have a properly and neatly formatted list of theoretical background on sleep, I have about 5 highly relevant sources for any section, I have a summary of Matthew Walker's (sleep scientist) knowledge condensed into small sections on why sleep is important and how we can improve it, based on the podcast he has done on JRE and his book "Whe We Sleep". Of course, I already knew what was important, what wasn't, I guided GPT-4 in the direction I wanted to go. But with that structure in my mind and the immense summarizing and overall writing skills of GPT-4, I basically did half of the whole group project, the task that six people were supposed to do over the next weeks, in 90 minutes.

I get that this group project isn't quantum physics. I get that six people are too many to do it. I get that it isn't that complicated, that hard, that important. But it's the main task of a whole subject in my Masters and I did it in record time. It would have taken me many more hours to do it that cleanly without using GPT-4. All the other ones that haven't ever used it think that I either have autism or that I'm sort of 'cheating' using GPT-4. And I myself even feel shady for doing that in that speed. But I think, and that is the important point, that the work I have done using GPT-4 is at least as good as I could have ever done it without it. Some bullet points need to be edited out, others need to be explained a bit more thoroughly, but all in all, the work that's on the paper is seven pages worth of condensed scientific evidence on sleep and everything that is important about it from a psychological view.

Needless to say I did the same with another group project and did half the work on doing a video on a guided meditation by letting GPT-4 write a whole structure with indications and contraindications for specific clinical profiles, key points and a whole script for a guided meditation. All within one hour. And the result is, again, at least as good as it could ever have been without GPT-4.

This changes academia, this changes the way we work, we write, we think. I don't know what to think of it, but it's the most powerful tool I ever used, period.

The future is now, guys.